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  • Shi Tao – jailed for sending an email

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    Shi Tao © PEN

    Chinese journalist Shi Tao is serving 10 years in jail after Internet company Yahoo! gave the authorities his personal email account-holder information.

  • Yang Tongyan – pro-democracy activist and freelance writer

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    Yang Tongyan

    Yang Tongyan wrote web articles in support of democratic and political change in China. A court convicted him of 'subversion' and jailed him for 12 years.

  • Huang Jinqiu - Internet essayist and journalist

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    Huang Jinqiu

    Huang Jinqiu criticised China and it cost him his freedom. The journalist has been jailed, tortured and beaten.

  • Ye Guozhu – evicted from his home

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    Ye Guozhu

    Property owner Ye Guozhu is one of the many Beijing residents evicted from their homes to make way for Olympic building work. He spoke out and is now behind bars.

  • Tiananmen Mothers – human rights defenders

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    © AP/Elizabeth Dalziel

    The Tiananmen Mothers are fighting for justice for those killed and injured in an attack on peaceful protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square almost two decades ago.

  • Chen Guangcheng – human rights defender and legal advisor

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    Chen Guangcheng

    When authorities began forcing women from the village of Linyi to have abortions and sterilisations Chen Guangcheng decided to speak up.

  • Gao Zhisheng – missing human rights lawyer

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    Gao Zhisheng © AFP

    Gao Zhisheng is a self-taught lawyer, a Christian and a Chinese army veteran. He has not been seen since last September – his friends and family don’t know where he is.

  • Hu Jia – silenced behind bars

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    © Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan

    Hu Jia, a renowned Chinese human rights’ activist, is serving three-and-a-half years’ in prison after giving interviews to overseas media and writing articles for the Internet.

  • Nie Shubin – wrongly executed

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    Photo of Nie Shubin from Sky News
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    Nie Shubin's family only discovered he had been executed after his father went to take him food in prison. The young farmer, who was barely in his 20s, was reportedly tortured into confessing to the rape and murder of a woman.

  • Wu Zhenjiang - put to death

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    © AFP

    Wu Zhenjiang was executed in 2005, but still to this day his body has never been returned to his grieving family. The 24-year-old student's family say they were not allowed to see him after his trial, and didn't even get to say goodbye.

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